History of Bergen County, New Jersey
In December, 1682, the Assembly of East Jersey passed an act dividing the
province into four counties, viz.: Bergen, Essex, Middlesex, and Monmouth.
Bergen included all the settlements between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers,
and extended to the northern boundary of the province. Bergen and its outlying
plantations comprised about sixty thousand acres of land. In the act of
January 21, 1709, "for determining the bounds of the several counties," those
of Bergen were extended as follows: " Beginning at Constable's Hook, so along
the bay and Hudson's River to the partition point between New Jersey and the
province of New York; along this line and the line between East and West
Jersey to the Pequaneck River; down the Pequaneck and Passaic Rivers to the
sound; and so following the sound to Constable's Hook, the place of
beginning."
In 1693 the counties were divided into townships. But those of Bergen
County—viz : the townships of Bergen and Hackensack—had existed for many years
and been organized municipalities, the former under the Dutch government of
the New Netherlands, and the latter under the proprietary government of East
Jersey, No court existed at Hackensack in 1682. Smith says, in his "History of
New Jersey," under date of this year: "The plantations on both sides of the
Neck, as also those at Hackensack, were under the jurisdiction of Bergen Town,
situated about the middle of the Neck." The act of organization established
the county courts at Bergen, where they remained until the enlargement of the
county in 1709.
Table of Contents
- Indian History
- Discovery and Occupation of the New Netherlands
- Early Settlement and Land Patents
- Land Patents in Bergen County
- Old Bergen Town and Township
- The Old Township of Hackensack
- In Ye Olden Time
- Civil Organization of the County of Bergen
- Civil List of Bergen County
- Courts and Court Houses
- Bergen County in Time of War
- Societies and Incorporated Companies
- Internal Improvements
- Schools
- New Barbadoes - Hackensack
- Saddle River Township - Borough of Garfield
- Franklin Township - Oakland, Wyckoff, Wortendyke, Hohokus, Ramseys, Mahwah
- Orvil Township Hohokus, Waldwick, New Prospect
- Boroughs - Allendale, Upper and Lower Saddle River
- Ridgewood - Boroughs of Glen Rock and Midland Park
- Washington Township - Boroughs of Ridge Park, Montvale Woodcliff, Westwood; the Township of Hillsdale, Pascack
- Midland Township - Boroughs of Delford, Riverside and Maywood;
- Villages of Oradell, New Milford. Cherry Hill, and Spring Valley
- Lodi Township - Boroughs of Lodi, Wallington, Carlstadt, Woodridge, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry and the Township of Bergen
- Union Township - Kingsland. Lyndhurst, and the Borough of North Arlington
- Boroughs of Rutherford and East Rutherford
- The Township of Ridgefield - Fort Lee, Ridgefield Park
- Boroughs of Ridgefield - Leonai, Fairview, Undercliff, Palisades Park, and Bogota
- Englewood Township - City of Englewood and Englewood Cliffs
- Teaneck Township - The Villa Grange
- Palisades Township Boroughs of Tenafly, Cresskill, Dumont and Bergen field
- Harrington Township - Northvale, Closter, Demarest, and Borough of Tappan.
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